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Floodlights commonly used in cinema studios may heat up small sets, make actors too uncomfortable to do their best work. Beads of sweat on shapely noses and fine foreheads will ruin takes. Last week a bulky Dutch physicist named Cornells Bol, working at Stanford University, had film producers interested in a tiny, super-powerful lamp which will keep their stars cool while working...
...Bol's lamp is a stout, strongly sealed quartz tube less than a quarter-inch in outside diameter, with an inside diameter of .08 to .04 in. It contains neon to start an electric arc, is so full of mercury that when the arc vaporizes the mercury, the pressure rises as high as 300 atmospheres. At the core of the mercury the temperature is 14,000° F., on the inside wall of the tube 1,800°. The lamp is served by a water cooler in which the water must be hurried along in its jacket to prevent...
...Party's inner circle. CRACK!-even louder that same day Pravda lashed out against Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whom every Soviet music critic has hailed as the Revolution's most brilliant genius in the realm of operatic and symphonic composition. Not only has Comrade Shostakovich been Bol- shevism's musical darling, but Capitalism in Manhattan put on its boiled shirts and sped to the splendiferous Metropolitan Opera House premiere of his master work, Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (TIME, Feb.11, 1935). Pravda called Shostakovich's compositions "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and tuneless." The devastating Communist epithet "bourgeois...
...Peabody Mus. 21* Mon. at 12 Peabody Mus. ASTRONOMY 2a Tues. at 10 Astron. Lab. 5 Mon. at 9 Astron. Lab. 8b* Mon. at 2 Astron. Lab. 10b* Mon. at 2 Harv. Observ. C25 11* Tues. at 11 Harvard Observ. 25 BIOLOGY B Mon. at 12 Bol. Lab. Lect. Rm. C* Consult Professor Upton 11 Tues. at 9 Biol. Lab. Lect. Rm. 13 Mon. at 9 Biol. Lab. D274 17* ** Tues. at 12 Gray Herbarium 18 Tues. at 10 Biol. Lab. D274 24 Mon. at 10 Biol. Lab. Lect. Rm. 26b Mon. at 2 Zool. Mus. Lib. 27a* Tues...
...works of Rembrandt's pupils Ferdinand Bol, and Nicholas Mass, do not suffer by comparison with...